I'll stop making fun of their 2,000+ yr old fairy tales and children's stories (Koran, Bible, Torah, etc) when they stop calling me a sub-human, infidel, hellbound dog. The Christians are just a little nicer about it.
If you call me a piece of sh!t worthy of going to the worst place in [non]existence because I refuse to share your backwards ignorant beliefs in a magical "god".... personally I find that arrogant and amusing and your whole belief system suddenly becomes fair game.
The Abrahamists need to relax. If I'm going to Hell, just think, you'll have eternity to laugh about it in Heaven. If Allah/Jehovah existed, he certainly wouldn't need *YOUR* help with the smiting.
F*ck Islam. Eat bacon! Wanna burn my house down yet?
Then it sounds like the office needs to be stripped of ALL of it's power and reinvented. Period. "I don't think he's going to be any less tyrannical and unAmerican...." is not an excuse to let the current trends continue. Their offices, "executive privileges", and laws only exist as long as we allow them to exist. No "legal" methods will be effective in removing this new-found god-like power as the courts are part of the problem.
And considering Bush and Obama *BOTH* worked hard to take the leash off of corporate campaign contributions and give them "personhood" you can rest assured your government has been bought and paid for by the wealthy elite who are even LESS interested in fixing the problem.
Ever wonder why recent legislation completely and utterly screws over the people but a few companies get to make a ton of money while excluding competition? Ever wondered why the rich generally spend far less time in jail than the poor for the same crime, if any at all?
They have effectively created a modern "aristocracy" consisting of shareholders and lawyers. Executives are the new US nobility. Welcome to Feudalism.
It's a totally fucked up world under Islam and more often than not the "new Hitler" will come from a fucked up world, not from places like the West.
Germany wasn't all that f**ked up. Just hurting bad economically after WW1 and Hitler didn't think it was fair everyone else got to play empire and Germany got the short end of the stick. Hitler presented himself as a charismatic champion of the people that was going to fix everything and turn the country around. He actually did fix a lot of things and the people followed him to the bitter end. Was he an asshole? Yes. A sick mass murderer? Yes. An unsuccessful politician? HELL NO!
Remember, the Nazis were in power for YEARS prior to WW2. Stuffing folks in gas chambers didn't come for a while. Tyranny and evil don't magically appear overnight. And successful evil people will not let you in on the fact that they're evil. Even after it's plainly obvious they've duped people for years, it will all be "in your best interests" and to protect your "freedom". To even question such logic is obviously bordering on terrorism/treason.
I'm in a similar boat. I've been buying Macintoshes since the nineties and working on them professionally longer, but when it comes time to upgrade to a new portable workstation, I'm moving to something like HP's beasts.
HP makes total pieces of crap now unless you spend big bucks. Then you get marginal crap.
Since my current MacBook Pro 17" is still very capable, I'm cross-grading all of my pro-applications to Windows that don't have a multiplatform license and plan to be in Bootcamp fulltime before end of the year. This is easy for me, since I used PCs first back in the eighties and never abandoned them, even when I moved on to Macs fulltime -- I still build PCs for gaming and 3D work.
Unfortunately I can't bring myself to stomach a less useful and productive environment by switching to Windows. If you use your mac "like a PC" then Windows might suffice for you. If you actually used the additional UI functionality and extreme object-oriented nature of the UI, you'd feel the same. You'd have to forget almost everything you learned on Windows machines to come to grips with some of it though.
My solution was to sell off the mac desktops and just build a hackintosh. I still have my Macbook but I'll end up selling it off eventually. The Macbook Pro will still likely be useful in 5 years. The HP almost certainly won't. Lenovo makes a better machine. Hell, I'd argue Toshiba made a better machine.
And I did warranty service for years for HP and Toshiba laptops. I've also done plenty of out-of-warranty repairs on Apple machines (ugh) and Lenovo. HP sucks. They make good laser printers and oscilloscopes, that's about it.
Believe me, I *HATE* Apple as a company but NeXTstep was a great environment. Apple's version of it is great too with some minor tweaks like getting rid of Mission Control and turning desktop icons for drives, shares, etc back on.... losing the 3D dock.... Oh and turning on hot corners for Desktop and Application windows with Expose. Expose works while dragging files BTW, not many realize that. Can be quite powerful. Drop images into a chat or word document with ease, etc.
I like UNIX. I like commercial software like Quark. I actually *like* MS Office. I'm not willing to run Windows to get access to these programs and I'm DAMN sure not going to deal with the hassle of trying to make them work in WINE under BSD or Linux just to have alien programs that don't integrate with my desktop properly. If I want a good desktop-ready UNIXy OS that gives me everything I want including pro-grade productivity/audio apps -AND- OSS *NIX apps, I have no choice but MacOS X.
I don't hate Apple enough to ditch a well-engineered OS. I *DO* hate them enough never to buy another piece of hardware from them again and sell off my iPhone.
Another area I'm dropping, which is a bit harder to chew on, is IOS development. I'm not going to bother renewing with Apple come next March; but having said that, I deal mostly with enterprise and I noticed a trend towards Android tablets now, so this makes it easier.
Don't blame you. iOS is a joke for serious tasks and I'm not going to kiss Apple's ass for the privilege of developing for their crippled environment.
WELL SPOKEN, SIR! Get this badass muthafucker on the next rocket to Mars with 10 fine women!
I would colonize the sh!t out of that planet! The first martian family tree would look like Clevon's in Idiocracy. *BLOOP* *BLOOP* *BLIPPITY-BLIP-BLIP* *BLOOP* *BLOOP* *BLOOP*
Typically emigrants get better pay here than at home. Doesn't change the fact that there's nothing for them to do since most of the jobs got outsourced to their homeland instead.
The "fantasy fable" was real at one point so the corporations just bought the government and fixed the problem or set up shop elsewhere. Now we have America, Inc. determined to halt progress and defend their imaginary property at gunpoint. The future doesn't matter, only short-term profits.
Video chat applications have existed since the dawn of the web browser. And maybe even a bit before then.
Multitasking has existed since the 60's.
All of these technologies build on previous ancient tech. Including tablets. If today's patent laws existed in the 60's you would have a choice of 3 $2,000,000 computers to choose from to lease. The sole reason we saw progress in this field quickly was because everybody (the big players at the time) DIDN'T go nuclear on the budding home computer manufacturers in the early 80's.
They cannot do science more cost effectively than a robot. They cannot colonize because it will take GEOLOGIC time to terraform it.
BS. One guy and a jeep for a week could have gotten more accomplished as far as data gathering and analysis goes than all of the mars probe launches combined. Launching probes ain't free. It's incredibly costly as well.
So really. We should just stop being interested in Mars because it's like old and dusty and stuff. And we can't build a house or have anywhere to float a yacht. And it would be all uncomfortable and stuff. And stuff that takes a long time isn't worth doing. And it might be dangerous. And doing stuff like traveling millions of miles costs money. And it'd be all boring and junk.....
Jeez, when did Americans become whiny pussies? We used to be badasses, a shining symbol of freedom and courage. Now we're just money grubbing thugs who are willing to spend more money trying to install politicians in Middle Eastern countries than on mankind's progress. Sad.
Or even if you want to indulge your most Reynolds-wrapped tinfoil-clad conspiracy theories, a future where US domestic political protestors don't meet the same fate as those in the Prague Spring, Tienanmen Square or Syria.
Just because you aren't killed outright in front of TV cameras doesn't mean something horrible won't happen to you or your family in the dead of night. Or that you won't get "indefinitely detained" in the name of national security in a secret prison outside of US borders and tortured later. Welcome to New Rome.
The Chinese didn't kill the protestor who yelled at the guy in the tank before they drove on to Tienanmen Square outright either. But do you honestly think he's doing ok now?
Sorry, I'd rather them bring bullets. As many as they want. I don't like deception and mystery. It would drive their true intentions home in the minds of the citizens and wake the people up to the fact that they've lost control of their own nation and created a monster.
The entire system was meant to be FOR US... you know. The people. The inventor. The little guy. So we could bring something to market without being crushed by some charismatic douchebag with more money than brains. Now whoever wants to cut a check to the USPTO gets to patent just about anything they want, valid or not. It's up to you to raise the millions to fight the claim if they are BS patents.
This system is utterly and completely broken and useless and only serves as a way to ensure all innovation ceases to happen in the United States.
Their is almost no new technology developed in the US. None. Nada. Zip. Your processors come from overseas. Your RAM comes from overseas. Your GPU comes from overseas. The only thing we pump out is useless imaginary property and legal hassle. And software. And we're sucking at that as well as of late because you can barely write simple programming constructs without fear of being sued.
Yeah. We're in decline. You may not see it yet. It may not hit you for a while but the US is up the creek without a paddle and this copyright and patent BS as of late is a major cause. It *WILL* have destructive results and basically result in a new dark ages if left unchecked for too long.
They are tools for the rich to keep new players from entering the field, and ones that are brave enough to do it anyway are easily crushed. Those sorts of patents are not tools FOR the people. They are tools AGAINST the people and in favor of the tyrannical wealthy elite whose corporations run our government.
The patent system is broken and has already collapsed upon itself. Time to simply burn it or pretend it no longer exists. I find it humorous to think I can be sued for auto-updating in my apps.
They are not tools to give folks a few year edge anymore to bring stuff to market. They are tools to wage war, crush competitors, suck them dry of money and attempt to destroy their employees' livelihoods (at least the enlisted scum that don't own shares).
A phone "SHAPED" like a rectangle that looks similar does not equal patent violation in my book. If that were the case there would only be ONE car maker now. I can really see Ford launching a war against Kia for making a car that's car shaped and has the same basic controls.
None of these patents were any real "innovation", just anti-competitive BS. Morons like you perpetuate the problem by flocking behind companies whose stuff you bought like a rabid religious fanatic no matter what evil that company unleashes on the world.
Stuff like this is what's grinding the tech industry to a halt. Apple isn't innovating. Samsung isn't innovating.
ARM and their licensees CERTAINLY ARE innovating. The LCD manufacturers are innovating..... RAM manufacturers are innovating. NVidia is innovating. Apple and MS aren't innovating. They are destroying an industry both on the desktop and in your pocket. And it is NOT in your best interest.
But Apple? Tablets and smartphones are nothing more than crippled PDA's with a better GPU. Get over it. I can get more done on an old Dell D600 with a copy of Ubuntu in 5 minutes than 2 hours with an iPad. They are useless facebook toys with a crippled bastardized version of OSX. I had a Samsung smartphone (i300) back in like 2002 that was ALL touch screen, no keypad and had 4 buttons. First touch screen dialing smartphone I ever saw. Yet Samsung didn't go nuclear over similar devices popping up from Nokia and later on Apple.
Believe me, I have an iPhone and I wanted to enjoy it. Now I'm getting ready to sell it as it's really not terribly useful.
Now if Samsung used the same chipset in a phone that looked the same that would be different. They haven't copied squat and to say they have is an insult to engineers on both sides.
I just declined to link my Bank Account and use a prepaid Visa debit card from Walmart. Costs $3 to put money on it but that's better than letting some greed-driven corporation have unfettered access to my livelihood. I typically put just as much as I need for the purchases+shipping on there. I would just not use PayPal but that leaves very few realistic options for person-to-person online payments without making everyone you deal with get a new account somewhere.
Bullshit. StraightTalk offers naked SIM cards. $45/mo all-you-can-eat-but-no-tethering prepaid. T-Mobile does as well. Just not in the store usually. You have to go online and get one. $15 to get my unlocked iPhone going with them. They use AT&T's network last I checked.
It's a pain in the ass for sure but not the end of the world. Replacement batteries will still be sold, you'll just need to take more effort to replace it or find somebody who is. As someone who frequently works on Apple laptops for folks, I welcome this. I've even worked on those obnoxiously difficult to disassemble iBooks.
As someone who travels long distances, not being able to carry a spare battery sucks. If all of their laptops move to this, I'll be hackintoshing a Lenovo for my next laptop. My 2009 Macbook still has plenty of life in it.....and a removable battery....and a cheap to replace screen.
They're already working on it. Why do you think 10% of our population is enslaved in jail helping prisons to generate a profit? I have a hard time believing 1 in 10 people are so awful they deserve to have their lives (and families' lives) ruined by incarceration in a facility that tolerates abuse and sadistic behavior.
iOS is a walled garden. Apple is under no obligation to let anyone develop for it. If you're going to embarrass and criticize Apple, they are under no obligation to let you do it on their iPhones and iPads (or Macs either, for that matter).
1.) It's *MY* iPhone. Not Apple's. I bought it. If they don't like that they can stop selling hardware to end users.
2.) I'll write whatever code I feel like, distribute it and talk smack all I want and they can't do dick about it. Just because they invented the walled garden doesn't mean they get to rewrite copyright law and assert control of something I bought. Just like they can't stop me from building a hackintosh. Locking people out for helping you secure your devices is asinine and childish.
Yeah, it's definitely the best commercial desktop OS...oh except basically no corporate software runs of them,
Oh, you mean like MS Office, Photoshop, Acrobat, etc? Even most stagnant shitty VB6 crap will still run under CrossOver or WINE if there's no OSX port.
they're ungodly expensive,
Again, wrong. There just isn't a $300 Walmart or DIY option unless you actually know a bit about the OS. They are no more expensive than a boutique PC except maybe the Mac Pro.
you'll never ever assemble an IT department that specializes in macs,
Really? I guess I've imagined the 4 I've seen firsthand then. Just because *YOUR* IT dept is incompetent and only knows how to deal with one flaky-ass platform, don't assume they all are. Macs are just UNIX boxes with a really nice UI layer and some cool additional API's.
there's no common management whatsoever,
Now you're TRULY showing your ignorance. Macs can be managed quite easily with both MS Active Directory and OpenDirectory.
and all your employees are used to Windows.
And at one point most employees were used to DOS. If you're users are retarded enough to not get the concepts of windows, icons and pointers if the decorations change, they have no business in front of a computer unsupervised and need retraining on basic concepts anyway. Time to find more intelligent and productive employees. Most of your keyboard shortcuts will even work if you swap ctrl for cmd. Should take 5-10 minutes to settle in, especially coming from Win7.
Other than all that, it's the best! Get fucking real. I am so sick of you clueless apple fanboys posting bullshit like this.
I'm sick of you clueless morons with the computing aptitude of a Best Buy salesman flapping your gums as if you were a real IT professional. Get fucking real, grow up a little, read a few books, study hard and actually gain some knowledge on the inner workings of BOTH platforms since I doubt you know as much about Windows as you think either.
No we're only slaves to corporate shareholders and the politicians who do their bidding. Especially banks and/or the companies and misers who have THEM by the balls.....like the guy who runs that old DB company every large organization uses but no one really "loves". That weirdo freaktard who held fight clubs for stock options.... one who actually followed through with the weirdo hermit fantasy of owning one's own island. A guy who despite being pretty bright isn't much more than a spoiled rich kid propped up by tax dollars, teams of lawyers and some slaves he bought that happen to be good with computers. Whiny little bastards, someday the computers will write their own software and he won't need them anymore.
Never said they did, but I wouldn't be surprised to see tablets showing up with PCIe graphics chips soldered to the board.
NVidia's embedded/integrated graphics is far from crappy for most tasks as well. The 9400M in my 2009 Macbook is actually pretty capable and they've only gotten better since.
You also have Tegra2, etc which also require drivers. So now you'll just be trading MS lock-in for Linux lock-in when it comes to mobile because noone will give up the specs for low-level coding for even the slower integrated ARM GPU's. Try porting FreeBSD to a Samsung Galaxy and actually get HW-accelerated 3D support. Not going to happen.
This affects the Raspberry Pi as well due to binary blobs required to make the GPU go.
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I'll stop making fun of their 2,000+ yr old fairy tales and children's stories (Koran, Bible, Torah, etc) when they stop calling me a sub-human, infidel, hellbound dog. The Christians are just a little nicer about it.
If you call me a piece of sh!t worthy of going to the worst place in [non]existence because I refuse to share your backwards ignorant beliefs in a magical "god".... personally I find that arrogant and amusing and your whole belief system suddenly becomes fair game.
The Abrahamists need to relax. If I'm going to Hell, just think, you'll have eternity to laugh about it in Heaven. If Allah/Jehovah existed, he certainly wouldn't need *YOUR* help with the smiting.
F*ck Islam. Eat bacon! Wanna burn my house down yet?
Then it sounds like the office needs to be stripped of ALL of it's power and reinvented. Period. "I don't think he's going to be any less tyrannical and unAmerican...." is not an excuse to let the current trends continue. Their offices, "executive privileges", and laws only exist as long as we allow them to exist. No "legal" methods will be effective in removing this new-found god-like power as the courts are part of the problem.
And considering Bush and Obama *BOTH* worked hard to take the leash off of corporate campaign contributions and give them "personhood" you can rest assured your government has been bought and paid for by the wealthy elite who are even LESS interested in fixing the problem.
Ever wonder why recent legislation completely and utterly screws over the people but a few companies get to make a ton of money while excluding competition? Ever wondered why the rich generally spend far less time in jail than the poor for the same crime, if any at all?
They have effectively created a modern "aristocracy" consisting of shareholders and lawyers. Executives are the new US nobility. Welcome to Feudalism.
It's a totally fucked up world under Islam and more often than not the "new Hitler" will come from a fucked up world, not from places like the West.
Germany wasn't all that f**ked up. Just hurting bad economically after WW1 and Hitler didn't think it was fair everyone else got to play empire and Germany got the short end of the stick. Hitler presented himself as a charismatic champion of the people that was going to fix everything and turn the country around. He actually did fix a lot of things and the people followed him to the bitter end. Was he an asshole? Yes. A sick mass murderer? Yes. An unsuccessful politician? HELL NO!
Remember, the Nazis were in power for YEARS prior to WW2. Stuffing folks in gas chambers didn't come for a while. Tyranny and evil don't magically appear overnight. And successful evil people will not let you in on the fact that they're evil. Even after it's plainly obvious they've duped people for years, it will all be "in your best interests" and to protect your "freedom". To even question such logic is obviously bordering on terrorism/treason.
Toshiba and Lenovo get my vote for best Wintel laptops. Both offer decent support.
Dell offers great post-sale support but then again, you are likely to need it with their hardware.
Asus is hit or miss. Never worked on a Samsung laptop, can't comment there.
I'm in a similar boat. I've been buying Macintoshes since the nineties and working on them professionally longer, but when it comes time to upgrade to a new portable workstation, I'm moving to something like HP's beasts.
HP makes total pieces of crap now unless you spend big bucks. Then you get marginal crap.
Since my current MacBook Pro 17" is still very capable, I'm cross-grading all of my pro-applications to Windows that don't have a multiplatform license and plan to be in Bootcamp fulltime before end of the year. This is easy for me, since I used PCs first back in the eighties and never abandoned them, even when I moved on to Macs fulltime -- I still build PCs for gaming and 3D work.
Unfortunately I can't bring myself to stomach a less useful and productive environment by switching to Windows. If you use your mac "like a PC" then Windows might suffice for you. If you actually used the additional UI functionality and extreme object-oriented nature of the UI, you'd feel the same. You'd have to forget almost everything you learned on Windows machines to come to grips with some of it though.
My solution was to sell off the mac desktops and just build a hackintosh. I still have my Macbook but I'll end up selling it off eventually. The Macbook Pro will still likely be useful in 5 years. The HP almost certainly won't. Lenovo makes a better machine. Hell, I'd argue Toshiba made a better machine.
And I did warranty service for years for HP and Toshiba laptops. I've also done plenty of out-of-warranty repairs on Apple machines (ugh) and Lenovo. HP sucks. They make good laser printers and oscilloscopes, that's about it.
Believe me, I *HATE* Apple as a company but NeXTstep was a great environment. Apple's version of it is great too with some minor tweaks like getting rid of Mission Control and turning desktop icons for drives, shares, etc back on.... losing the 3D dock.... Oh and turning on hot corners for Desktop and Application windows with Expose. Expose works while dragging files BTW, not many realize that. Can be quite powerful. Drop images into a chat or word document with ease, etc.
I like UNIX. I like commercial software like Quark. I actually *like* MS Office. I'm not willing to run Windows to get access to these programs and I'm DAMN sure not going to deal with the hassle of trying to make them work in WINE under BSD or Linux just to have alien programs that don't integrate with my desktop properly. If I want a good desktop-ready UNIXy OS that gives me everything I want including pro-grade productivity/audio apps -AND- OSS *NIX apps, I have no choice but MacOS X.
I don't hate Apple enough to ditch a well-engineered OS. I *DO* hate them enough never to buy another piece of hardware from them again and sell off my iPhone.
Another area I'm dropping, which is a bit harder to chew on, is IOS development. I'm not going to bother renewing with Apple come next March; but having said that, I deal mostly with enterprise and I noticed a trend towards Android tablets now, so this makes it easier.
Don't blame you. iOS is a joke for serious tasks and I'm not going to kiss Apple's ass for the privilege of developing for their crippled environment.
WELL SPOKEN, SIR! Get this badass muthafucker on the next rocket to Mars with 10 fine women!
I would colonize the sh!t out of that planet! The first martian family tree would look like Clevon's in Idiocracy. *BLOOP* *BLOOP* *BLIPPITY-BLIP-BLIP* *BLOOP* *BLOOP* *BLOOP*
Typically emigrants get better pay here than at home. Doesn't change the fact that there's nothing for them to do since most of the jobs got outsourced to their homeland instead.
The "fantasy fable" was real at one point so the corporations just bought the government and fixed the problem or set up shop elsewhere. Now we have America, Inc. determined to halt progress and defend their imaginary property at gunpoint. The future doesn't matter, only short-term profits.
Video chat applications have existed since the dawn of the web browser. And maybe even a bit before then.
Multitasking has existed since the 60's.
All of these technologies build on previous ancient tech. Including tablets. If today's patent laws existed in the 60's you would have a choice of 3 $2,000,000 computers to choose from to lease. The sole reason we saw progress in this field quickly was because everybody (the big players at the time) DIDN'T go nuclear on the budding home computer manufacturers in the early 80's.
The US patent system is SEVERELY broken.
Oh, forgot to add the classic "We have enough problems on Earth, we don't need to be in Space".
They cannot do science more cost effectively than a robot. They cannot colonize because it will take GEOLOGIC time to terraform it.
BS. One guy and a jeep for a week could have gotten more accomplished as far as data gathering and analysis goes than all of the mars probe launches combined. Launching probes ain't free. It's incredibly costly as well.
So really. We should just stop being interested in Mars because it's like old and dusty and stuff. And we can't build a house or have anywhere to float a yacht. And it would be all uncomfortable and stuff. And stuff that takes a long time isn't worth doing. And it might be dangerous. And doing stuff like traveling millions of miles costs money. And it'd be all boring and junk.....
Jeez, when did Americans become whiny pussies? We used to be badasses, a shining symbol of freedom and courage. Now we're just money grubbing thugs who are willing to spend more money trying to install politicians in Middle Eastern countries than on mankind's progress. Sad.
Or even if you want to indulge your most Reynolds-wrapped tinfoil-clad conspiracy theories, a future where US domestic political protestors don't meet the same fate as those in the Prague Spring, Tienanmen Square or Syria.
Just because you aren't killed outright in front of TV cameras doesn't mean something horrible won't happen to you or your family in the dead of night. Or that you won't get "indefinitely detained" in the name of national security in a secret prison outside of US borders and tortured later. Welcome to New Rome.
The Chinese didn't kill the protestor who yelled at the guy in the tank before they drove on to Tienanmen Square outright either. But do you honestly think he's doing ok now?
Sorry, I'd rather them bring bullets. As many as they want. I don't like deception and mystery. It would drive their true intentions home in the minds of the citizens and wake the people up to the fact that they've lost control of their own nation and created a monster.
The entire system was meant to be FOR US... you know. The people. The inventor. The little guy. So we could bring something to market without being crushed by some charismatic douchebag with more money than brains. Now whoever wants to cut a check to the USPTO gets to patent just about anything they want, valid or not. It's up to you to raise the millions to fight the claim if they are BS patents.
This system is utterly and completely broken and useless and only serves as a way to ensure all innovation ceases to happen in the United States.
Their is almost no new technology developed in the US. None. Nada. Zip. Your processors come from overseas. Your RAM comes from overseas. Your GPU comes from overseas. The only thing we pump out is useless imaginary property and legal hassle. And software. And we're sucking at that as well as of late because you can barely write simple programming constructs without fear of being sued.
Yeah. We're in decline. You may not see it yet. It may not hit you for a while but the US is up the creek without a paddle and this copyright and patent BS as of late is a major cause. It *WILL* have destructive results and basically result in a new dark ages if left unchecked for too long.
They are tools for the rich to keep new players from entering the field, and ones that are brave enough to do it anyway are easily crushed. Those sorts of patents are not tools FOR the people. They are tools AGAINST the people and in favor of the tyrannical wealthy elite whose corporations run our government.
The patent system is broken and has already collapsed upon itself. Time to simply burn it or pretend it no longer exists. I find it humorous to think I can be sued for auto-updating in my apps.
They are not tools to give folks a few year edge anymore to bring stuff to market. They are tools to wage war, crush competitors, suck them dry of money and attempt to destroy their employees' livelihoods (at least the enlisted scum that don't own shares).
A phone "SHAPED" like a rectangle that looks similar does not equal patent violation in my book. If that were the case there would only be ONE car maker now. I can really see Ford launching a war against Kia for making a car that's car shaped and has the same basic controls.
None of these patents were any real "innovation", just anti-competitive BS. Morons like you perpetuate the problem by flocking behind companies whose stuff you bought like a rabid religious fanatic no matter what evil that company unleashes on the world.
Stuff like this is what's grinding the tech industry to a halt. Apple isn't innovating. Samsung isn't innovating.
ARM and their licensees CERTAINLY ARE innovating. The LCD manufacturers are innovating..... RAM manufacturers are innovating. NVidia is innovating. Apple and MS aren't innovating. They are destroying an industry both on the desktop and in your pocket. And it is NOT in your best interest.
But Apple? Tablets and smartphones are nothing more than crippled PDA's with a better GPU. Get over it. I can get more done on an old Dell D600 with a copy of Ubuntu in 5 minutes than 2 hours with an iPad. They are useless facebook toys with a crippled bastardized version of OSX. I had a Samsung smartphone (i300) back in like 2002 that was ALL touch screen, no keypad and had 4 buttons. First touch screen dialing smartphone I ever saw. Yet Samsung didn't go nuclear over similar devices popping up from Nokia and later on Apple.
Believe me, I have an iPhone and I wanted to enjoy it. Now I'm getting ready to sell it as it's really not terribly useful.
Now if Samsung used the same chipset in a phone that looked the same that would be different. They haven't copied squat and to say they have is an insult to engineers on both sides.
I guess whoever modded me down as a troll didn't get the idiocracy reference or THEY are a dick.
Obama's a DICK! That's right!!! South Carolina!!! REPRESENT YA'LL!!!
I just declined to link my Bank Account and use a prepaid Visa debit card from Walmart. Costs $3 to put money on it but that's better than letting some greed-driven corporation have unfettered access to my livelihood. I typically put just as much as I need for the purchases+shipping on there. I would just not use PayPal but that leaves very few realistic options for person-to-person online payments without making everyone you deal with get a new account somewhere.
Bullshit. StraightTalk offers naked SIM cards. $45/mo all-you-can-eat-but-no-tethering prepaid. T-Mobile does as well. Just not in the store usually. You have to go online and get one. $15 to get my unlocked iPhone going with them. They use AT&T's network last I checked.
It's a pain in the ass for sure but not the end of the world. Replacement batteries will still be sold, you'll just need to take more effort to replace it or find somebody who is. As someone who frequently works on Apple laptops for folks, I welcome this. I've even worked on those obnoxiously difficult to disassemble iBooks.
As someone who travels long distances, not being able to carry a spare battery sucks. If all of their laptops move to this, I'll be hackintoshing a Lenovo for my next laptop. My 2009 Macbook still has plenty of life in it.....and a removable battery....and a cheap to replace screen.
You just totally dated yourself man.... one of the few games I had on cassette before I begged my dad for a floppy drive for my 130XE.
They're already working on it. Why do you think 10% of our population is enslaved in jail helping prisons to generate a profit? I have a hard time believing 1 in 10 people are so awful they deserve to have their lives (and families' lives) ruined by incarceration in a facility that tolerates abuse and sadistic behavior.
iOS is a walled garden. Apple is under no obligation to let anyone develop for it. If you're going to embarrass and criticize Apple, they are under no obligation to let you do it on their iPhones and iPads (or Macs either, for that matter).
1.) It's *MY* iPhone. Not Apple's. I bought it. If they don't like that they can stop selling hardware to end users.
2.) I'll write whatever code I feel like, distribute it and talk smack all I want and they can't do dick about it. Just because they invented the walled garden doesn't mean they get to rewrite copyright law and assert control of something I bought. Just like they can't stop me from building a hackintosh. Locking people out for helping you secure your devices is asinine and childish.
Yeah, it's definitely the best commercial desktop OS...oh except basically no corporate software runs of them,
Oh, you mean like MS Office, Photoshop, Acrobat, etc? Even most stagnant shitty VB6 crap will still run under CrossOver or WINE if there's no OSX port.
they're ungodly expensive,
Again, wrong. There just isn't a $300 Walmart or DIY option unless you actually know a bit about the OS. They are no more expensive than a boutique PC except maybe the Mac Pro.
you'll never ever assemble an IT department that specializes in macs,
Really? I guess I've imagined the 4 I've seen firsthand then. Just because *YOUR* IT dept is incompetent and only knows how to deal with one flaky-ass platform, don't assume they all are. Macs are just UNIX boxes with a really nice UI layer and some cool additional API's.
there's no common management whatsoever,
Now you're TRULY showing your ignorance. Macs can be managed quite easily with both MS Active Directory and OpenDirectory.
and all your employees are used to Windows.
And at one point most employees were used to DOS. If you're users are retarded enough to not get the concepts of windows, icons and pointers if the decorations change, they have no business in front of a computer unsupervised and need retraining on basic concepts anyway. Time to find more intelligent and productive employees. Most of your keyboard shortcuts will even work if you swap ctrl for cmd. Should take 5-10 minutes to settle in, especially coming from Win7.
Other than all that, it's the best! Get fucking real. I am so sick of you clueless apple fanboys posting bullshit like this.
I'm sick of you clueless morons with the computing aptitude of a Best Buy salesman flapping your gums as if you were a real IT professional. Get fucking real, grow up a little, read a few books, study hard and actually gain some knowledge on the inner workings of BOTH platforms since I doubt you know as much about Windows as you think either.
No we're only slaves to corporate shareholders and the politicians who do their bidding. Especially banks and/or the companies and misers who have THEM by the balls.....like the guy who runs that old DB company every large organization uses but no one really "loves". That weirdo freaktard who held fight clubs for stock options.... one who actually followed through with the weirdo hermit fantasy of owning one's own island. A guy who despite being pretty bright isn't much more than a spoiled rich kid propped up by tax dollars, teams of lawyers and some slaves he bought that happen to be good with computers. Whiny little bastards, someday the computers will write their own software and he won't need them anymore.
Never said they did, but I wouldn't be surprised to see tablets showing up with PCIe graphics chips soldered to the board.
NVidia's embedded/integrated graphics is far from crappy for most tasks as well. The 9400M in my 2009 Macbook is actually pretty capable and they've only gotten better since.
You also have Tegra2, etc which also require drivers. So now you'll just be trading MS lock-in for Linux lock-in when it comes to mobile because noone will give up the specs for low-level coding for even the slower integrated ARM GPU's. Try porting FreeBSD to a Samsung Galaxy and actually get HW-accelerated 3D support. Not going to happen.
This affects the Raspberry Pi as well due to binary blobs required to make the GPU go.